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CICRA part of national radio fundraising appeal
Global’s Make Some Noise has chosen CICRA as one of its charities to support in 2018.
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Leicester IBD family information day, 7 July
Our 2018 family days continue with our biggest ever gathering of childhood IBD specialists in Leicester on 7 July.
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40th Anniversary Research Fund
With 4000 children diagnosed every year with IBD, there is an urgent need for more specialists and better treatments.
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Our next IBD family information days
Our 2018 family days continue with Sheffield on 28 April and Leicester on 7 July.
Watch presentations from spec…
Our Work
CICRA is the only UK registered charity formed solely to support the ever increasing number of children and young adults with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis (Inflammatory Bowel Disease – IBD) and their families. When the charity was formed in 1978 there were no paediatricians specialising in Crohn’s and Colitis in children so CICRA set up a Fellowship Scheme and many of the leading doctors treating children and young people throughout the UK today have had their specialist training through this scheme. CICRA continues to offer this opportunity to young doctors wishing to specialise in gastroenterology.
To support the families CICRA offers literature, telephone help, a ‘Can’t Wait’ toilet card, an E-Pal scheme for children and parents and organises family IBD information days in all regions of the UK. This gives families, children and young adults the opportunity to ‘meet the specialists’ in small discussion groups and importantly for children and young people to be able to mix with others in their own age group.
CICRA also supports other peer reviewed medical and scientific research, through three further funding streams, aimed at finding more effective treatments and an eventual cure for Crohn’s and Colitis
Funding Opportunities
The CICRA Trustees have decided that as we are currently funding 2 x 3 year Fellowships, 3 x 3 year PhD studentships and 2 research projects we will not be advertising new grants in 2017. It is the 40th Anniversary of the charity in 2018 so we are putting all our efforts into making this a bumper fundraising year so that during 2018 we can advertise a record amount for new research to take us forward into 2019……
The bursary and John Earnshaw awards will continue as usual.
Applications are invited at any time from UK based health professionals, and students involved in IBD research, for CICRA bursary grants of up to £400 to help with costs for attending scientific/medical meetings or related training courses.
Applications for the annual John Earnshaw Award of £1,000 are invited from CICRA funded Research Fellows, and others in training in the area of Paediatric IBD, specifically to help with costs of attending UK and International scientific/educational congresses.
For further details please CLICK HERE.